DailyPost 2103 NCSC’s WARNING If somebody were to say that there is a security concern, bigger than even the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war; which has put the global security and economy in a disarray, one would be awestruck. You would find it difficult believe it and you would keep rattling your brain for the right answer. […]
DailyPost 2100 PEGASUS’S EUROPEAN SOJOURN NSO, the company which has created the most lethal cyber weapon in the world, called Pegasus, the ultimate spyware, has always maintained the it was being sold only to governments. The sale was under strict supervision of the Israeli government, as per the legal protocol and things have been running
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DailyPost 2091 BLACK CAT – THE CHANGING RANSOMWARE DIMENSIONS! That ransomware is the biggest cybercrime or a leading cyber security threat is a misnomer. What it actually entails in crippling whatever it intends to. We have seen this happening over and over again from the days of WannaCry to recent attacks on Colonial Pipelines and
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DailyPost 2071 ARE WE RANSOMWARE READY? Do we need to be ransomware ready? The answer to this has to be a strong affirmative for anybody, who has even the slightest knowledge of the changing cyber security landscape. Is India moving in that direction, if the situation is so dire. First the ransomware landscape. Recent experience
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DailyPost 2048 CYBER SECURITY – LURE THEMES Lure themes are liked as much by the hackers as the hacked themselves. Though the theme remains the same at both the ends, for one it is a weapon and for the other a decoy for which he falls unknowingly, sometimes being unaware even after the hack. This
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DailyPost 2034 REVIL IN INDIA – OIL INDIA UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK Approach to Cyber Security has been that of lip service, giving the feeling that everything is fine. At the very best it is a compliance issue, some checkboxes are ticked and that is the beginning and end of it. It has always been that
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DailyPost 2026 WAR WITHIN A WAR One war which rages all the time is a Cyber War, for a variety of reasons between countries in a multifarious manner; from propaganda, to meddling in internal issues, to theft of intellectual property and the list goes on. It can be as exhaustive as the cyber world itself.
DailyPost 2024 DIGITAL CRIMES IN THE METAVERSE While the world is still struggling to make sense of data and what it can do, and simultaneously finding mechanisms to resurrect data to the users, we still are a long way off. The criminality which comes out of it leads to crimes and consequences which are beyond
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DailyPost 1993 THE CYBER SURVEILLANCE INDUSTRY The conventional trade of surveillance was restricted to government agencies with defined roles and duties within the law and through tools that can be accounted for. There were no great private players, it was a game of expertise picked up over decades enmeshed with little conventional technology, wherever available
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DailyPost 1962 PEGASUS – THE UNENDING SORDID SAGA Even before one act of the Pegasus play is over, the next one is ready to hit the stands. The strand which runs through this unending saga is that the democratically elected rulers / leaders have no faith in democracy. The mechanism of checks and balances should work
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DailyPost 1957 RANSOMWARE CASE STUDIES The increase in the cases of ransomware and the challenges it poses to human existence, in a variety of ways, certainly calls for a research element in the fight against it. The sensationalizing that is happening through media reports is ending up nowhere. The current posture as it stands today gives
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